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Fri, 20. January 2023
Two ICRA workshops co-organised by the Autonomous Systems Group
Alex Mitrevski, Santosh Thoduka, and Prof. Plöger are co-organising a workshop on robot execution failures; Prof. Hochgeschwender is co-organising a workshop on robot software architectures
Fri, 20. January 2023
Multiple papers by the Autonomous Systems Group accepted at ICRA 2023
The titles are "Analysing the Safety and Security of a UV-C Disinfection Robot", "Domain-specific languages for kinematic chains and their solver algorithms: lessons learned for composable models", and "LiDAR-based indoor localization with optimal particle filters using surface normal constraints"
Thu, 19. January 2023
Paper by Argentina Ortega and Prof. Hochgeschwender accepted at IROS 2022
A. Ortega, N. Hochgeschwender, and Thorsten Berger, "Testing Service Robots in the Field: An Experience Report"
Thu, 19. January 2023
Autonomous Systems Group at the Hannover Messe 2022
The Autonomous Systems Group was there as part of the "Economic Region Bonn" and presented a new bimanual and modular mobile robot platform by KELO Robotics, a recent startup by our Prof. Prassler
Thu, 19. January 2023
MAS graduate Arun Prabhu wins 2nd place AFCEA award for his master's thesis
Arun won the award for his master's thesis "An investigation of regression as an avenue to find precision-runtime trade-off for object segmentation"
Thu, 19. January 2023
MAS student Samuel Parra wins "DAAD award for outstanding achievements of international students"
Samuel is not only an active student researcher, but also volunteers in the MAS foundations course and organises various social events for the MAS students
Thu, 19. January 2023
MAS student Kaushik Manjunatha part of an award-winning team at the ML2R Autumn School 2021
Kaushik was part of a team that won the "Autumn School Compactness Award"
Thu, 19. January 2023
Alex Mitrevski, Prof. Plöger, and Prof. Lakemeyer take joint 2nd place for the best poster award at the SPAR workshop at IROS 2021
A. Mitrevski, P. G. Plöger, and G. Lakemeyer, "Hybrid Execution Models of Parameterised Actions for Explainable and Diagnosable Robot Action Execution"
Thu, 19. January 2023
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Houben joins Autonomous Systems Group
Prof. Houben's research focuses on perception for autonomous robots using machine learning
Thu, 19. January 2023
Autonomous Systems Group at IROS 2021
Two papers will be presented by Santosh and Alex; both of them are also chairing sessions at the conference
Thu, 19. January 2023
Paper by Salman Omar Sohail and Alex Mitrevski accepted at ECMR 2021
S. O. Sohail, A. Mitrevski, N. Hochgeschwender, and P. G. Plöger, "Property-Based Testing in Simulation for Verifying Robot Action Execution in Tabletop Manipulation"
Thu, 19. January 2023
Papers by Alex Mitrevski and Santosh Thoduka accepted at IROS 2021
The paper titles are "Ontology-Assisted Generalisation of Robot Action Execution Knowledge" and "Using Visual Anomaly Detection for Task Execution Monitoring"
Thu, 19. January 2023
Paper by Alex Mitrevski and Prof. Plöger accepted at ICRA 2021
A. Mitrevski, P. G. Plöger, and G. Lakemeyer, "Robot Action Diagnosis and Experience Correction by Falsifying Parameterised Execution Models"